Ping Pong over the Abyss
1982 studio album by The 77s
Ping Pong Over The Abyss | ||||
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Studio album by The 77s | ||||
Released | 1982 | |||
Studio | Exit Studios, Sacramento, California | |||
Genre | Rock, new wave | |||
Label | Exit | |||
Producer | Steven Soles | |||
The 77s chronology | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Cross Rhythms | [2] |
Trouser Press | Highly negative[3] |
Ping Pong over the Abyss is the debut album by the 77s, released in 1982 on the Exit Records label.
One song from that album, "Renaissance Man", was later recorded by the Ocean Blue. "It's So Sad" was later rerecorded, with a drastically different arrangement, by Roe's other band, the Lost Dogs, for their album MUTT.
The title comes from Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl", section 3: "I'm with you in Rockland / where you scream in a straight jacket that you're losing the game of the actual ping pong of the abyss."
Track listing
Side one
- "A Different Kind of Light"'
- "How Can You Love"
- "It's So Sad"
- "Falling Down a Hole"
- "Someone New"
Side two
- "Renaissance Man"
- "Ping Pong Over the Abyss"
- "Time Is Slipping Away"
- "Denomination Blues (That's All)"
Bonus tracks (CD)
Bonus tracks originally found on CDs in the 123 boxset.
- "A Different Kind of Light" (Live)
- "How Can You Love" (4-track demo)
- "It's So Sad" (Live)
- "Falling Down a Hole" (Live)
- "Ping Pong Over the Abyss" (4-track demo)
- "Denomination Blues" (Live)
Band members
- Mike Roe - guitar, lead vocals
- Mark Tootle - keyboards, guitar, vocals
- Jan Eric - bass, background vocals
- Mark Proctor - drums, vocals
References
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- Michael Roe
- Mark Harmon
- Bruce Spencer
- Jan Eric Volz
- Aaron Smith
- Mark Tootle
- Mark Proctor
- David Leonhardt
- Ping Pong over the Abyss
- All Fall Down
- The 77s
- Sticks and Stones
- Eighty Eight
- Pray Naked
- Drowning with Land in Sight
- Tom Tom Blues
- Echos o' Faith
- Late
- A Golden Field of Radioactive Crows
- Holy Ghost Building
- EP
- Direct